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The HNJ2030 Team consists of a Coordinating Committee comprised of NJDOH staff, an Advisory Council comprised of external partners, and Action Teams for specific Topic Areas. Click the bars below for more information about each group.
The Healthy New Jersey 2030 Coordinating Committee (HNJCC) is a small group of NJDOH staff members tasked with managing the development, launch, implementation, and maintenance of the HNJ2030 initiative.
Members represent the Office of Population Health, Public Health Services, Integrated Health Services, and Health Systems branches of the NJDOH.
- Maria Baron, chair
- Loretta Kelly, co-chair
- Yannai Kranzler
- Amanda Medina-Forrester
- Andrea Mahon
- Yvonne Mikalopas
- Suzanne Miro
- Jennifer Fearon
- Jamie Weller
- Damon Koslow
- Jennifer Okwuonu
We thank these former members for all their help getting HNJ2030 off the ground:
Meeting minutes from all Healthy New Jersey workgroups are on the Meetings and Events page.
The Healthy New Jersey Advisory Council (HNJAC) is a small team of external partners charged with guiding the HNJ2030 process from development through implementation. The HNJAC supports the work of the HNJ2030 Coordinating Committee (HNJCC), including selection of topic areas, objectives, and leading health indicators and assistance with recruitment of Action Team (ACT) members. In the long-term, council members will guide, edit, and write portions of the next State Health Assessment (SHA) and State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP). All Council positions are unpaid.
HNJ Advisory Council Chair
- Marissa Davis, New Jersey YMCA State Alliance
Access to Quality Care Action Team Chairs
- Bageshree Cheulkar, Community Based Services at Virtua Health
- Kwaku Gyekye, RWJBarnabas Health - Jersey City Medical Center
- Megan Avallone, New Jersey Association of County and City Health Officials
Healthy Communities Action Team Chairs
- Diane Hagerman, New Jersey Health Initiatives
- Jeanne Herb, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University
- Regina Riccioni, Saint Elizabeth University
Healthy Families Action Team Chairs
- Alysia Mastrangelo, Stockton University
- Tyree Oredein, Montclair State University
- Victoria Brogan, New Jersey Hospital Association
Healthy Living Action Team Chairs
- Alycia Bayne, NORC at the University of Chicago
- John Sarno, Employers Association of New Jersey
- Sherry Dolan, Community and Urban Health at Capital Health
The HNJAC application period ran from March 11 to April 30, 2019.
A membership description and application form were posted online and links to it were posted on the home pages for DOH, the Office of Population Health, and DSRIP, as well as on DOH's Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages. Emails were sent to hundreds of potential candidates, members of the DOH internal HNJ2020 workgroup were asked to forward the email to their external partners, and the email was also specifically forwarded by the Office of Local Public Health to all Local Health Officers and the Governmental Public Health Partnership Coordinators for each county.
Fifty applications were received during the 6-week recruitment period. Over the following four months, a dozen staff members and partners reviewed the applications in order to select a competent, credible, compatible, and diverse team to provide fresh perspectives on maximizing HNJ2030's overall success. Selection of a small team to represent a large number of sectors and experiences throughout the state was a more lengthy and difficult task than anticipated due to the overwhelming response from so many well-qualified candidates.
Meeting minutes from all Healthy New Jersey workgroups are on the Meetings and Events page.
ACTs consist of DOH staff and external partners working in areas related to a specific Topic Area.
The initial tasks of each ACT are to:
- refine the focus issues and establish high-level goals for its Topic Area,
- create strategies and action plans to achieve those goals,
- establish SMART objectives with corresponding target values to be achieved by 2030.
After the development phase of HNJ2030 is completed, ACT tasks will include:
- implementation of the action plans,
- collection and reporting of the data associated with each objective, and
- annual review of the plans with updates made as needed.
Access to Quality Care Action Team
- Bageshree Cheulkar, Community Based Services at Virtua Health
- Megan Avallone, New Jersey Association of County and City Health Officials
- Kwaku Gyekye, RWJBarnabas Health - Jersey City Medical Center
- Yvonne Mikalopas, NJDOH Community Health Services
- Jamie Weller, NJDOH Office of Local Public Health
- Debra Wentz, New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies
- Ivette Guillermo-McGahee, Allies in Caring
- Jonathan Tew, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
- Linda Schwimmer, New Jersey Health Care Quality Initiatives
- Roger Sarao, New Jersey Hospital Association
- Selina Haq, New Jersey Primary Care Association
- Steven Landers, Visiting Nurse Association Health Group
Healthy Communities Action Team
- Diane Hagerman, New Jersey Health Initiatives
- Regina Riccioni, Saint Elizabeth University
- Jeanne Herb, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University
- Loretta Kelly, NJDOH Office of Population Health
- Natassia Rozario, NJDOH Opioid Response and Policy
- Charles Brown, Rutgers' Voorhees Transportation Center
- Chris Kirk, NORWESCAP
- Elise Bremer-Nei, NJ Department of Transportation
- Karen Alexander, Rutgers University & New Jersey Travel Independent Network
- Kathleen Avitt, New Jersey Recreation and Park Association
- Kati Angarone, NJ Department of Environmental Protection
- Kimberly Birdsall, Health Coalition of Passaic County
- Lauren Skowronski, Sustainable Jersey
- Leigh Ann Von Hagen, Rutgers' Voorhees Transportation Center
- Memphis Madden, Trenton Department of Health and Human Services
- Sherry Driber, NJ Department of Environmental Protection
- Victoria Brogan, New Jersey Hospital Association
- Tyree Oredein, Montclair State University
- Alysia Mastrangelo, Stockton University
- Andrea Mahon, NJDOH Community Health Services
- Lisa D'Amico, NJDOH Division of Family Health Services
- Marilyn Gorney-Daley, NJDOH Division of Family Health Services
- Pamela Taylor, NJDOH Division of Family Health Services
- Jennifer Fearon, NJDOH Office of Policy and Legislative Services
- Ana Lopes Johnson, Association of Black Women Physicians
- Barbara May, Southern New Jersey Perinatal Collaborative
- Carolyn DeBoer, Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern NJ
- Dave Ellis, NJDCF Office of Resilience
- Debbie Nazzaro, New Jersey State School Nurses' Association
- Ellen Maughan, New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition
- Hannah Korn-Heiler, Advocates for Children of New Jersey
- Jessica Lipper, Nurse-Family Partnership
- Joanne Rosen, Samaritan
- Keri Logosso-Misurell, Greater Newark Healthcare Coalition
- Kimberly Pierre, Newark Trust for Education
- Linda Sloan Locke, American College of Nurse Midwives
- Prachi Patel, Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern NJ
- Robyn D'Oria, Central Jersey Family Health Consortium
- Sandra Grebel, Preferred Behavioral Health Group
- Trish Suplee, Central Jersey Family Health Consortium
- Velda Font-Morris, Newark Department of Health and Community Wellness
- John Sarno, Employers Association of New Jersey
- Sherry Dolan, Community and Urban Health at Capital Health
- Alycia Bayne, NORC at the University of Chicago
- Suzanne Miro, NJDOH Epidemiology, Environmental, and Occupational Health
- Juliet Jones, NJDOH SNAP-Ed
- Nashon Hornsby, NJDOH Division of Community Health
- Angelo Valente, Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey
- Barbara Johnston, Mental Health Association of New Jersey
- Carolyn Beauchamp, Mental Health Association of New Jersey
- Diane Litterer, New Jersey Prevention Network
- Eva Mancheno, Food Bank of New Jersey
- Laura Cerutti, TransOptions
- Meredith Yorkin, Hackensack Meridien at Pascack Valley Memorial
- Nicole Nazy, Morristown Medical Center
- Tiffany Neal, New Jersey Healthy Communities Network
The ACT application period ran from January 31 to February 28, 2020.
A membership description and application form were posted online and links to it were posted on the home pages for DOH and the Office of Population Health, as well as on DOH's Twitter and Facebook pages. Emails were sent to hundreds of potential candidates, members of the HNJAC and HNJCC were asked to forward the email to their external partners, and the email was also specifically forwarded by the Office of Local Public Health (OLPH) to all Local Health Officers and other OLPH contacts.
Over 100 applications were received during the 4-week recruitment period and ACT members were chosen by the Advisory Council members who chair the respective Action Teams.
Meeting minutes from all Healthy New Jersey workgroups are on the Meetings and Events page.
